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Hi, I'm Adriano Muricy Santos. I'm a Montreal-based 3D Artist, VFX & Motion Designer with 5 years of experience building visually striking and technically robust content for games and marketing. I love turning ideas into immersive, performant visuals by blending real-time engines, procedural tools, and polished motion design. I'm excited to collaborate on new projects and open to relocation.…

Adriano Muricy Santos

3D Animator, 3D Visualizer, Motion Graphic Designer, +7

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Hi, I'm Adriano Muricy Santos. I'm a Montreal-based 3D Artist, VFX & Motion Designer with 5 years of experience building visually striking and technically robust content for games and marketing. I love turning ideas into immersive, performant visuals by blending real-time engines, procedural tools, and polished motion design. I'm excited to collaborate on new projects and open to relocation.…

Available to hire

Hi, I’m Adriano Muricy Santos. I’m a Montreal-based 3D Artist, VFX & Motion Designer with 5 years of experience building visually striking and technically robust content for games and marketing. I love turning ideas into immersive, performant visuals by blending real-time engines, procedural tools, and polished motion design. I’m excited to collaborate on new projects and open to relocation.

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Language

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Fluent

Work Experience

VFX Artist at Gameloft Toronto

July 1, 2024 - July 1, 2024

Created VFX including particle animations, 2D flipbooks, sprites, textures, and procedural systems; developed 3D and 2D objects for VFX; implemented real-time VFX in Unity and proprietary engine; collaborated with designers to align with visual style; optimized VFX for multiple platforms; researched new techniques; contributed to art reviews; developed visuals from concept art and original ideas.

Technical Artist, Motion Designer at Pazl Studio

June 1, 2024 - October 30, 2025

Led development of a 3D puzzle game in Unreal Engine 5; created custom gameplay Blueprints logic; optimized graphics using profiling and Unreal Insights; authored Houdini algorithms for game content generation; wrote Python scripts for mesh optimization and task automation; developed Blender scripts for mesh clean up and data organization; optimized textures, meshes, UVs, lightmaps and lighting settings; created custom shaders in Unreal Shader Editor; produced particle simulations and VFX shaders in Niagara; applied varied lighting techniques (baked, lumen, lightmass, postprocess volumes) for visibility and style.

3D Artist & Motion Graphics Designer at Gameloft Toronto

June 1, 2022 - June 1, 2022

Created and staged scenes, transitions, and animations for marketing content; modeled objects and animated cameras; added VFX and integrated them into scenes; rendered and edited shots for online/offline distribution; edited sound and music; designed and animated motion graphics titles and previsualization assets; produced real-time and in-compositing VFX for marketing videos; contributed to brand visuals for Sony, Mattel, Pixar, Star Wars and Disney.

Motion Graphic Designer at Freelance / Self-employed

June 1, 2022 - June 1, 2022

Collaborated with clients to deliver high-quality visual assets for film, TV, advertising, and gaming; created 3D models, animations, and VFX; developed motion graphics, titles, and promotional videos; integrated VFX into live-action footage; performed motion tracking, rotoscoping, and compositing; managed timelines, budgets, and deliverables.